Oblivion

I'd be a liar if I said that I'd never, at one point in my life, wanted to be remembered by a very large number of people. When I was little I wanted to be famous so that people would be aware that I existed. I didn't want to be just a "temporary thing", that would not leave a mark. I used to care so much about what other people thought of me and I used to want people to know my name. But these aren't things that are essential to me anymore. 

What's more important: dying and knowing that you have lived a fulfilled life and have done good things, and know that you have helped people, or just being famous? Of course you can do both. But just being famous is surely not what I would consider a life well spent. Maybe it's in human's nature that we want to stand out. We want to say "hey, I exist. Don't forget about me". But so even if you were, say, known by these 7 billion people that live on this planet, they all knew your name and who you are... would that really make you a happy person? 

In the book/film, "The Fault In Our Stars", one of the main characters wants to be remembered, so badly. And his girlfriend tells him: "There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.” I thought this passage of the book was brilliant. Another one along the same lines is: "You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you. But that's an insult to me. I know about you." 
It shouldn't matter how many people know our names or how long we have to do things on this planet. As long as we remind ourselves to always live in the moment and be the best person we can be, we would accomplish, in my opinion, a successful life. Nobody can be remembered forever. Even the greatest people of our centuries who have revolutionised our world will be forgotten, whether it's when the human race will cease to exist or because their name will be forgtotten with time. It doesn't matter because the world we live in at this very moment, will have completely changed in millions of years. Completely. Something else will replace everything that we know with time. 

At the end of the day, we should mainly focus on the people we do know; the people we meet throughout our lives, our friends and family, and make sure that we help each other and create things and inspire others without feeling the need  to be immortalised. In some way we all are anyway. When you participate in life, when you share your ideas, when you create, you do something; you change the world. On your own scale. No matter how small of a change it might make, the world wouldn't be what it is now, without you. I hope that when I grow old, I can sit back and think about all the things I'll have done in my life and be proud of them. If I have had a positive impact on someone, and inspired someone and loved the people I care most about and I helped people in need and always tried my very best in everything that I'll have done.. I will be a content little human. I don't need a million people to know about me. Whether I influence one person or a thousand or a million, if I manage to influence one person, in a positive way, that would be good enough for me. Of course, if I were to become famous and get to reach more people, then great. If I don't, that's ok too.
In our society I feel like people make a bigger deal of numbers. They want as many likes on a photo or video as possible for instance but why should one person not be enough? Someone that actually really cares about you. Someone that, without you, wouldn't be who they are today.
It's a big world out there. We all have different qualities and flaws, which makes us able to relate at the same time. I believe we all complement each other. We need each other. We're stronger together.

As long as you're happy with who you are, and what you do and try to improve the world you live in, I'd say, you're doing a pretty good job. And thank you - we need you. 

PS: thanks for stopping by! xx

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